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• At intersections, walls join at the interior By default, when multiple Main Layers are
surfaces of their Main Layers. See “Con- specified:
necting Walls” on page 360. • Intersecting walls build to the interior sur-
• Windows are placed relative to the outer face of the innermost Main Layer.
surface of the outermost Main Layer. • Floor platforms build to the exterior sur-
• Exterior walls on different floors are face of the outermost Main Layer.
aligned by the exterior edges of their • A selected wall’s edit handles display
outermost Main Layer. along the exterior of the outermost Main
• Roof baselines are placed at the outer Layer.
edge of the outermost Main Layer when • The exterior surface of the outermost
roofs are automatically generated. See Main Layer is the Dimension Layer
“The Baseline” on page 789.
See “Wall Type Definitions Dialog” on page
• Roof baselines and gable/roof lines that 386.
are manually drawn snap to the outermost
edge of the Main Layer.
The Dimension Layer
• By default, walls resize about the exterior
surface of their Main Layers when their Dimension Defaults can be set to locate walls
thickness, wall type, or Wall Type Defini- at their surfaces or at the exterior line of their
tion is changed. See “Resize About” on Wall Dimension Layer. See “Locate Objects
page 373. Panel” on page 452.
For installed wall types, the default Wall
• Object Snaps locate the interior and
exterior edges of a wall’s Main Layers. Dimension layer is the Main Layer; however,
See “Object Snaps” on page 168. this can be changed in the Wall Type
Definitions dialog. In addition to the Wall
All of this information is reliant on the Main Dimension Layer, dimensions can locate the
Layer, so creating your wall type definitions inside surface of the Main Layer, as well.
accurately beforehand and specifying the
Main Layer correctly is very important. Whether Surface or Wall Dimension Layer is
selected on the LOCATE OBJECTS panel of the
Multiple Main Layers Dimension Defaults dialog determines a
number of aspects related to how dimensions
In standard light frame construction, walls locate walls:
build to one another’s framing layers, and • How Auto Exterior and Manual Dimen-
floor and ceiling platforms are built to bear sions measure the lengths of walls.
over the wall framing; however, some
building techniques configure these • Where both Manual and Automatic Reach
components in other ways. You can control are measured from.
how walls of a given type are intersected, • Where Extension line lengths and their
and also where platforms build to, by Gap From Marked Object are measured
specifying multiple Main Layers. from.

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